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...least ten people were killed. Several British residents were beaten. An Indian businessman described how soldiers broke into his home, forced his family to lie on the living-room floor and then ransacked the house, stealing radios, money and a video recorder. They took "everything they could carry," he said. Marauders burned scores of buildings and shot up electrical facilities, causing blackouts in parts of the capital...
...broke smoothly and whirled through the first two laps in perfect position just behind the early leaders with Coe right on Cram's back. Coe stayed with his younger rival through the third lap, and for a moment, at the bell for the final lap, Coe seemed to be gaining. But then Cram, whose shock of curly blond hair, perfect legs and finely sculpted features give him the look of a Greek demigod, began to turn up the burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying...
...said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside in his pickup truck," Arthur told the federal agents. "I said I could cry. So he said, 'Come on, take a walk.'" Then John turned to Arthur...
...papers were "not worth the risk involved" and prodded him for better secrets. Arthur supplied two more documents. One was a "damage-control book" for the U.S.S. Blue Ridge. It outlined procedures to follow whenever a part of the ship sprung a leak, developed a fire or otherwise broke down. The other was an extract of "casualty reports," detailing equipment problems experienced by a class of amphibious assault ships. Arthur's lawyers argued that the documents carried the lowest security classification, "confidential," and were of little value to the enemy. But Captain Edward Sheafer Jr., a senior intelligence officer...
Soon after the MGM news broke, Turner arranged simultaneous press conferences in New York City, Moscow, London and Phoenix, which were broadcast live on his SuperStation WTBS, to announce a groundbreaking agreement with the Soviet Union. As Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated...